Re: Git versus Hg

[Tom Cooksey <thomas.cooksey@trolltech.com>]

> > If you choose a well-known SCM system, it's one less 
> > thing new potential developers need to learn. They have enough to 
> > learn as it is.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> > PS: Personally, I'd never heard of Hg until reading threads on this
> > list.
> 
> And you won't believe, but many people never heard about Perforce, even
> though it has been alternative (commercial, plus OpenSource loyalty
> program) to CVS for something like decade (cannot be exact, but 7
> years ago it was there for sure). Many large entities still selected
> CVS and spent money on "reduced development productivity and extra
> maintenance costs" (forgive my corporate-speak), just because it was so
> familiar.

Yep, I was one of them. Never heard of perforce before starting at Trolltech. :-)

I think I have limited SCM knowledge. CVS, SVN, Git, Starteam (eeek) were 
the only ones I really knew about, until fairly recently.